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And now the whole world knows Kim Jong-Il suffers from premature detonation.

Why not? I'm sure she has some leftover sperm in there anyways. Might as well put it to good use.

Damn, the Sabres are SO CHEAP!!!! I like the team taking on this contract rather than the ones that would have kept Grier or McKee in town. Spacek for 3+ million is better than four years of McKee for $4M or three years of Grier at $1.8M. Also shows the team *is* willing to spend money. I actually wasn't expecting them to sign anyone new after Numminen, but at least now we know they're in the game. I need to see multi-year (meaning more than 2) contracts for Briere and Tallinder and I'll be pretty damn happy.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/aste...e_B_041227.html That's a relief. For a while I thought I might not get to die a lonely old man in a nursing home.

Let me set the record straight right here. 1. I drove a Honda Fit once. On a dare. And I was drunk. So it really wasn't my fault. 2. I have never in my life even considered eating Seymour Hirsh's poop.

And plus Reuters might not pay attention to you. And Cindy Sheehan needs reporters to pay attention to her at least 10 hours a day or she'll die. Did you know she had a son die in Iraq??

Oh, and not to nitpick with your logic, because you clearly thought everything through a few times, but the buffalo didn't have legs last year either.

You're right. There's NOTHING to be excited about for next season. Sure, it's only July 3rd but I'm already predicting the Sabres miss the playoffs next spring. There's no point in even watching. Anybody who watched even ONE GAME this past season can tell you that McKee and Grier were the two best players on the team - NAY - in the entire NHL. Without them, a complete collapse for the entire organization cannot be far behind. So what if Jay McKee wasn't even on our top defensive pairing? So what if Mike Grier was a 31 year old checking forward who chose to leave Buffalo when offered identical contracts? So what if Grier is leaving a team that already has too many forwards and can't play them all? So what if Darcy Regier has made the fans who doubt him look incredibly stupid several times as GM of the Sabres? The point is we're mad right now. In July. When Cups are won. We lost those two players. Meanwhile, every single team in the NHL has improved. Every single one. They all moved players from one team to the other and all those players are better now and now all those teams are better than the Sabres. We'll be lucky if we score even one goal without Mike Grier here.

Did you just purposely link to prisonplanet.com??? Why not just post "I'm a dofus and no one should take me seriously ever"? Pretty much sends the same message and you don't have to link to anything.

"oooohhhh....Mancow in the Morning...." The Moses part was probably the best in that episode.

Who cares?? We didn't re-sign Mike Grier. Mike Grier is gone! Darcy is an idiot! Golisano is a FRAUD!!!! All is lost!!!! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMEEEDDD!!!!!!! Teppo stays, McKee and Grier leave. Isn't that what everyone was predicting for months? I'll say it again: This off-season is a success or failure based on the length of the deals that get done for Briere, Tallinder, Dumont, etc.

To be honest, when I first found out about the change, it did bother me because it felt like they were changing the character to make sure they didn't offend anyone. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was a complete non-issue. Nothing I think or remember about Superman as a kid has anything to do with him standing up for "America." Sure, he's an All-American boy from the Midwest but explicitly having him stand for "The American Way" sort of makes him political and I really hate politics invading my entertainment. Little kids in Fort Erie should be able to enjoy him as much as kids in Buffalo.

My secret sources say Seymour Hirsh eats his own poop. And drives a Honda Fit.

It doesn't help that the Buffalo looks like a friggin elf either.

I would definitely like to have Grier and Teppo back, but even more I'd like to have long term deals done with some of the guys I mentioned. Every player as good or better than Jay McKee can't make $4M dollars because of the salary cap. I think there are a lot of strange contracts being given out now because 1. GMs are still feeling their way around the new system and 2. a lot of NHL GMs are pretty stupid. HOPEFULLY, things start to even out once teams start legitimately having cap trouble in the next couple years (I don't think anyone is dealing with that right now). And in the A's defense, they're in first place right now. Meanwhile, the big spending Angels are hanging out in last place and leading the AL in errors. Nice team.

Someone over at sportslogos.net posted other designs submitted to the Sabres by the design firm that were eventually rejected by the team in favor of the Banana Slug. As usual, take these with a grain of salt. http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/bods39/Concept-3.gif http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/bods39/Concept-4.gif The first one is definitely along the lines of what I would have wanted (although I liked John Slabyk's (Celsuis Design's) fat buffalo in between the swords better. I admire the creativity of the second one, but only as a shoulder patch (I don't know if I want a tribute to rivers as our primary logo).

Considering he was only the third or fourth best defensemen on the team last year, that is DAMN good money. I'd put Tallinder and Lydman ahead of him. Kalinin could be ahead of him if he can stay healthy (a problem McKee himself had until last season) and maybe Campbell for what he brings in the new NHL. We can lose all our UFAs and still have a very successful off-season if we get 3 and 4 year deals done with our core players (Tallinder, Briere, Roy, Connolly, etc.)

To paraphrase, there will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews. At this rate, that will be never.

One of the "amateurs" at sportslogos.net took the new logo and made up some concept jerseys around them. And, once again, the "amateur" did an outstanding job. These are actually cool uniforms: Fan Creations It's amazing how many people with photoshop and an imagination can do better than whoever the hell the Sabres hired. There's a ten out of ten chance that the picture I just linked will be cooler than the actual jerseys once we see them. This one is cool too: YELLOW!

The tornado touched down maybe half a mile from my house. We live pretty close to the thruway too so we could hear all the sirens and whatever. It was a crazy day. Seemed like a nice morning and then the sky turned black, hail the size of marbles came down for several minutes, and finally a tornado attacked the mall. I don't want to point fingers but I don't think it's a coincidence that mother nature tried to destroy Buffalo the day the new Sabres logo was confirmed in the Buffalo News.

Transformers test video? Maybe. http://www.blackfilm.com/20060512/features...est_video.shtml If this is fake, it's pretty well made. I actually think it's probably fake because it looks too much like a Transformer and not enough like what Hollywood thinks a Transformer should look like (i.e. crappy).

It's actually not a bad logo on its own, but it's a bad Buffalo Sabres logo. I mean, was there anyone besides the guy who designed this thing who didn't know that Sabres fans wanted a CREST like we used to have -- a buffalo and two crossed swords?

So what the heck does the rest of the uniform look like? Are we getting horizontal lines or is it going to be a mess with a bunch of curvy, diagonal lines going every which way?

The "Announcement Trailer" is up. http://www.transformersmovie.com/ I think I saw a Transformer in there somewhere. On Mars. For some reason. Also, they make a point of letting you know it's "A Michael Bay Film." I have no idea why, you'd think they'd want to hide that fact.

Basically. Let me know if a celebrity ever says anything intelligent. These people live in a world where you get $40,000 gift bags when you attend an awards ceremony. You know, awards for pretending. If they ever return to reality, where all of the rest of us live, maybe I'll give a crap when they try to B word about politics.